together! scholarship information for visual impair

Holistic Support and Study Center for Persons with Visual Impairment

City: Addis Ababa || Wereda: 7 || Kebele: 08/16 || House No.: 399 || P.O.BOX: 25115 || Tel: +251-919-306355

Ethiopian Residents Charity Organization

Rehabilitation, Education, and Profession for All!

Together! Scholarship Program

“Alone we can do so little, Together! we can do so much!” (Helen Keller)

Who is Together!...?

Together! Ethiopian Residents Charity is a non-governmental organization founded by an

international and inclusive team of professionals having years of work experience in disability

mainstreaming, Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET), adaptive computer skills,

job integration, rehabilitation and psycho-social support.

Together!'s Goal and Objectives:

Together!'s goal is to contribute to an inclusive Ethiopian society by focusing on the following

objectives:

1. Improved access to education, vocational training, the professional sector and up-to

date information for people with visual impairment.

2. Holistic support for socially and economically marginalized individuals with visual

impairment and their affiliates to create sustainable livelihoods.

3. Raised awareness on sexually transmitted diseases, especially HIV/AIDS, cross-cutting

issues such as gender, disability and health among the visually impaired community.

4. Raised awareness of the potentials and challenges of people with visual impairments

among the sighted community.

Rehabilitation, Education and Profession for All!

To achieve its goal, Together! focuses on the following complimentary project components:

Resource & Study Center: Inclusively equipped project facilities in which also tangible

and audible Assistant Teaching and Learning Material are produced assist adults with and

without visual impairment to fulfill educational and professional.

Basic Computer Skill Training: Capacity building through TVET accredited training in

computer skills with adaptive technologies, Braille literacy, English language and

entrepreneurship includes persons with visual impairment to equally benefit from modern

technologies.





Basic Computer Skill Training at Schools: Visually impaired adults holding a TVET

certificate in computer skills provide training for visually impaired peers at inclusive partner

schools and institutions.

Individual Scholarships: Together! provides financial, educational and material support

to enable economically marginalized, visually impaired individuals to enroll at College and

University or to embark on own sustainable business.

Rehabilitative Shelter for Women with Visual Impairment and their Children: Besides

HIV/AIDS-, disability- and gender mainstreaming, Together! takes affirmative gender-sensitive

action and provides visually impaired females and their children in hazardous living situations

with safe shelter, psycho-social and rehabilitative support as well as with educational and/or

professional training for their future sustainable, stable and secure livelihoods.

A Day Care Center provides free-of-charge day care for children of visually impaired

parents to support their continuation of education and employment and thereby sustain a

secure and sufficient family income. The children engage in peer group education and games

and are given individual attention in regard to health and medical access for their proper

physical, mental and intellectual development.

Dialogue and Dinner in the Dark: Besides rehabilitation, education and capacity building

for visually impaired persons, Together! emphasizes on activities that raise awareness among

the sighted society in regard to the special abilities of people with visual impairment and

facilitates occasions of cultural and social encounters in complete darkness addressing the

sighted community.

Support Together!...

... through Individual Scholarships:

Throughout the past year, Together! has supported almost 50 visually impaired individuals to

embark on sustainable small business or enroll for tertiary education. Successful graduation

from University or College enhances chances of employment and is a very promising way for

visually impaired young individuals to overcome socio-economic marginalization and lead safe

and healthy lives as fully and actively participating members of the society.

This year again, Together! would like to support highly motivated applicants in their tertiary

education. To cover the College or University registration and course fees, study materials and

transportation costs for one visually impaired student – 30 Euro per month for 3 years –

Together! is in urgent need of new sponsors.





There is also the opportunity to make a one-time or occasional donation as start-off capital for

income generation for those motivated and creative visually impaired individuals who cannot

enroll at higher educational institutions!

...through a Project Scholarship:

Through its different project components, Together! serves 300 girls and boys, women and men

affected by visual impairment. Beside organizational services, direct project beneficiaries receive

an average amount of 30 Euro per month for the basic living and health care expenses of

themselves and their immediate affiliates. Monthly project scholarship support help us to

operate the above outlined project activities to a full extend and provide beneficiaries with

adequate material, financial, psycho-social and educational assistance to path the way into

economic self-reliance and relieve from severe poverty!

If you would like to support Together! though a scholarship, please contact us for more

information:

[email protected]

[email protected]

Together! Ethiopian Residents Charity

Address: P.O.Box 25115, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Email: [email protected]

Tel./ Mobile: +251 (0) 111 55 13 70

Website: www.together-et.org

Bank account:

Together! Ethiopian Residents Charity Together! Gemeinsam für Menschen mit

Behinderung in Äthiopien!

United Band S.C. Kontonummer: 60 29 72 48 00

Account No. 1041816007566023 Bankleitzahl: 430 609 67

Hilton Branch, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia GLS Gemeinschaftsbank

Subject: “Project Scholarship, Month, Year” Betreff: “Project Scholarship, Month, Year”

Thank you very much for your support!!!